Springer Series in Reliability Engineering Hoang Pham Editor Applications in Reliability and Statistical Computing Springer Series in Reliability Engineering SeriesEditor HoangPham,DepartmentofIndustrialandSystemsEngineering, RutgersUniversity,Piscataway,NJ,USA Today’s modern systems have become increasingly complex to design and build, while the demand for reliability and cost effective development continues. Reli- ability is one of the most important attributes in all these systems, including aerospace applications, real-time control, medical applications, defense systems, humandecision-making,andhome-securityproducts.Growinginternationalcompe- titionhasincreasedtheneedforalldesigners,managers,practitioners,scientistsand engineerstoensurealevelofreliabilityoftheirproductbeforereleaseatthelowest cost.Theinterestinreliabilityhasbeengrowinginrecentyearsandthistrendwill continueduringthenextdecadeandbeyond. TheSpringerSeriesinReliabilityEngineeringpublishesbooks,monographsand edited volumes in important areas of current theoretical research development in reliabilityandinareasthatattempttobridgethegapbetweentheoryandapplication inareasofinteresttopractitionersinindustry,laboratories,business,andgovernment. Nowwith100volumes! **IndexedinScopusandEICompendex** Interestedauthorsshouldcontacttheserieseditor,HoangPham,Departmentof IndustrialandSystemsEngineering,RutgersUniversity,Piscataway,NJ08854, USA. Email: [email protected], or Anthony Doyle, Executive Editor, Springer,London.Email:[email protected]. Hoang Pham Editor Applications in Reliability and Statistical Computing Editor HoangPham DepartmentofIndustrialandSystems Engineering Rutgers,TheStateUniversityofNewJersey Piscataway,NJ,USA ISSN 1614-7839 ISSN 2196-999X (electronic) SpringerSeriesinReliabilityEngineering ISBN 978-3-031-21231-4 ISBN 978-3-031-21232-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21232-1 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNature SwitzerlandAG2023 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsaresolelyandexclusivelylicensedbythePublisher,whether thewholeorpartofthematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuse ofillustrations,recitation,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,and transmissionorinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilar ordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Data is being collected and processedeachdaylikeneverbefore.With5GandIoTsettogenerateanestimated 1billionterabytesofdataby2025,companiescontinuetosearchfornewtechniques andtoolsthatcanhelpthempracticedatacollectioneffectivelyinpromotingtheir business.Alargeportionofthisdatawillcomefromsmartdevices,smartcommuni- ties.Theeraofbigdatathroughreliabilityandstatisticalcomputingwithalmostall applicationsinourdailylifehasexperiencedadramaticshiftinthepasttwodecades toatrulyglobalindustry.Theforcesthathavedriventhischangearestillatplayand willcontinue.Mostoftheproductswhichaffectourdailylivesarebecomingeven morecomplexthanever. Thebookconsistsof15chaptersthatcoversaselectionofrecentdevelopments and applications on various related topics in reliability and statistical computing. The emphasis of this book is on the practical applications of reliability and statis- tical methods and techniques in various disciplines using machine learning, risk assessment,modelingandoptimization,andothercomputationalmethods. Allchaptersinthebookarewrittenbyleadingresearchersandpractitionersintheir respectivefieldswithahopetoconnectthegapbetweenthetheoreticalandpractical computationsintheapplicationareasofreliabilityandstatisticalcomputing. IacknowledgeSpringerforthisopportunityandprofessionalsupport.Importantly, Iwouldliketothankallthechapterauthorsandreviewersfortheiravailabilityfor thiswork. Piscataway,NJ,USA HoangPham September2022 vii Contents ForecastingTheLong-TermGrowthofS&P500Index ................ 1 StephenH.-T.Lihn SmartMaintenanceandHumanFactorModelingforAircraft Safety ............................................................ 25 EricT.T.WongandW.Y.Man Feedback-BasedAlgorithmforNegotiatingHumanPreferences andMakingRiskAssessmentDecisions .............................. 61 SilviaCarpitella,AntonellaCerta,andJoaquínIzquierdo JoiningAspectDetectionandOpinionTargetExpressionBased onMulti-DeepLearningModels .................................... 85 BuiThanhHung VotingSystemswithSupervisingMechanisms ........................ 97 TingnanLinandHoangPham AssessingtheSeverityofCOVID-19intheUnitedStates .............. 117 KehanGao,SarahTasneem,andTaghiKhoshgoftaar PromotingExpertKnowledgeforComprehensiveHumanRisk ManagementinIndustrialEnvironments ............................ 135 IlyasMzougui,SilviaCarpitella,andJoaquínIzquierdo DataQualityAssessmentforMLDecision-Making ................... 163 Alexandra-S¸tefaniaMoloiu, GrigoreAlbeanu, HenrikMadsen, andFlorinPopen¸tiu-Vla˘dicescu From Holistic Health to Holistic Reliability—Toward an Integration of Classical Reliability with Modern Big-Data BasedHealthMonitoring ........................................... 179 FengbinSun ix x Contents On the Aspects of Vitamin D and COVID-19 Infections and Modeling Time-Delay Body’s Immune System withTime-DependentEffectsofVitaminDandProbiotic ............. 201 HoangPham A Staff Scheduling Problem of Customers with Reservations in Consideration with Expected Wait Time of a Customer withoutReservation ............................................... 219 JunjiKoyanagi Decision Support System for Ranking of Software Reliability GrowthModels .................................................... 227 DevanshuKumarSingh,Hitesh,VijayKumar,andHoangPham HumanPoseEstimationUsingArtificialIntelligence .................. 245 HimanshuSharma, AnshulTickoo, AvinashK.Shrivastava, andUmerKhan NeuralNetworkModelingandWhat-IfScenarios:Applications forMarketDevelopmentForecasting ................................ 271 ValentinaKuskova,DmitryZaytsev,GregoryKhvatsky,andAnnaSokol MentalHealthStudies:AReview ................................... 289 RachelWesleyandHoangPham Editor and Contributors AbouttheEditor Hoang Pham is a Distinguished Professor and former Chairman (2007–2013) of theDepartmentofIndustrialandSystemsEngineeringatRutgersUniversity.Before joining Rutgers in 1993, he was a Senior Engineering Specialist with the Idaho NationalEngineeringLaboratory,IdahoFalls,IdahoandBoeingCompanyinSeattle, Washington.Hisresearchareasincludereliabilitymodelingandprediction,software reliability,andstatisticalinference.Heiseditor-in-chiefoftheInternationalJournal ofReliability,Quality,andSafetyEngineeringandeditoroftheSpringerSeriesin Reliability Engineering and has been conference chair and program chair of over 50 international conferences and workshops. Dr. Pham is the author or coauthor of7booksandhaspublishedover200journalarticlesand100conferencepapers, and edited 17 books including Springer Handbook in Engineering Statistics and HandbookinReliabilityEngineering.Hehasdeliveredover40invitedkeynoteand plenaryspeechesatmanyinternationalconferencesandinstitutions.Hisnumerous awardsincludethe2009IEEEReliabilitySocietyEngineeroftheYearAward.He isaFellowoftheIEEE,AAIA,andIISE. Contributors GrigoreAlbeanu “SpiruHaret”University,Bucharest,Romania SilviaCarpitella DepartmentofManufacturingSystemsEngineeringandManage- ment,CaliforniaStateUniversity,Northridge,USA AntonellaCerta DepartmentofEngineering,UniversityofPalermo,Palermo,Italy KehanGao DepartmentofComputerScience,EasternConnecticutStateUniver- sity,Willimantic,CT,USA xi